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INDUSTRY: Animation & VFX / Television / Film	OCCUPATION: Engineer / Programmer	(INACTIVE - 5/5/2009 )

Software Engineer – Studio Application Infrastruct

Redwood City, CA

Dreamworks Animation

Glendale, California - United States

Project: Redwood City, CA

Job Duties(s): 3D Graphics / Rendering, Animation Programming, R & D / New Technology, Scripting / Programming, Tools / API's / Plug-In's

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

Relocation: Yes

Required Spoken Language(s): English

Required Work Auth.: United States

Start Date: Immediately

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JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

DreamWorks Animation is looking for a Principle Software Engineer to help design and build the infrastructure-level framework to support our next generation core animation tools. This individual will interface with technical leads on our animation tool projects. This individual will be responsible for developing new and enhancing existing functionalities for studio software applications, determining functional requirements and writing functional design specifications, and related documentation. This individual will provide technical leadership to the project leads, ensuring tool implementation is done per approved architectures. This individual will advocate usage of industry standards, research and incorporate latest technology standards, where applicable, into architectural design.

REQUIREMENTS:

• MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years experience in object-orientated software design and implementation
• Expertise in C/C++.
• Knowledge and implementation experience in software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience designing and implementing high performance computing, highly multi-threaded and data-intensive distributed systems.
• Excellent problem solving, and verbal and written communication skills.

DESIRED SKILLS AND PLUSES:

• Knowledge of Linux, Oracle and QT a plus.